Most people these days are too busy
to read family histories or do research on their ancestors.However,for those few who have expressed some interest from time to time in our heritage it seems well to record the knowledge we have of the past for future generation.

This is a picture of Brita Johannesdtr.Eraker(Hegg)

My G-Grandmother,s Norwegian Trunk that she bought over from Norway when she came to America.
Brita Johannesdtr. Eraker Hegg
Born June 20th,1849
Born: Laerdal,Runntupp u/Eraker
Bapt.July 11,1849
Confirmed Oct.12,1864
Recieved her education in Norway
Left Norway on Apr.20,1870
Married Peter Wold:July 4th,1872
Died:Greenwood Township
Vernon County,Wisconsin,USA
SOURCE OF INFORMATION
Laerdal Bygdebok,Bind 1,side 649

This is the(Altar)of the Old Borgund Stave
Church that my Great-Grandmother Brita Hegg
attended.
Noreg Borgund stavkyrkje,Sogn.Fra 1150
Norway:Borgund Stave Church,Sogn.
From about 1150.Altar-piece from
1654 and chasuble from 1751.

This is a picture of the "Old Borgund Stave Church."

Picture of My Great-Great Grandmother Randi Eriksdtr. Hansegjert(Hegg)
Born:1820
Her husband Johannes, the son of Henrik Henrikson Skaarheim and Unni Johannesdtr. Kattevoll, was born in 1812 in Laerdal Township. He was married on December 12, 1841 to Randi Eriksdtr. Hansegjerdet .Randi, the daughter of Erik Olsson Hansegjerdet and Ingeliev Haakonsdtr. Borlo was born in 1820 in Laerdal Township.
From 1842 to 1849, Johannes was a husmann at Runntupp under Eraaker. From 1848 to 1853, he had a place on the Hegg farm. From 1853 to 1858, he was at Runntupp again. In 1858, he was a husmann on the Bjorager farm. He then became a husmann at Brøyn under the Heggfarm from 1860 until he died in 1871.
Randi emigrated from Hegg on April 17, 1872 and settled in Greenwood Township in Vernon County, Wisconsin .Widow Randi Eriksdtr. Hegg with her sons, Ole, age 16, and Haakon, age 6, joined the Greenwood Lutheran Church as member number 101 on September 17, 1873. Her daughter, Unni, who had married in May 1873, joined at the same time. Randi died in 1913. She is buried in the Rest Haven Cemetery in Blair, Wisconsin.

This is a picture of the gravestone of My Great-Great-Grandmother Randi Eriksdtr. Hegg

Picture of G-Grandmothers Funeral Flowers
Martha Gurina Rasmusdtr Eide
May 22nd,1863
Died Sept.24,1905
Died at 42 of T.B.and Pan.Cancer
An inscription in Norwegian on Martha's original grave maker
reads,"Sal ig er de dode som dø i Herren."In
English it is,"Blessed are
the dead who die in the Lord."It is also appears on a new combination
marker erected after Herman's
passing.

Herman J.Hove

Herman Johanesson Hove

Born Nov.26th,1857
Baptized Dec.13th,1857
Married Nov.25th,1881
After Martha and Herman married ,they farmed west
of Randall two years for Mr.Amdal,the purchased
120 acres four miles east of Randall from Martha's parents.
Herman built as small house and a
barn of poles and hay.He
used a walking plow and cultivator,and sowed
oats by hand.When planting
corn,Martha sat up front on the planter and
worked the lever which dropped the kernals into
the ground.She could handle the horses as well
as Herman .They planted a grove
of ash trees to the north and west of the house,
but severe storms of recent years have destroyed many
of them.
He was a good singer ,an avid reader,being well-informed on Norweigian
economic conditions.
Herman(Hermund)was Confirmed Sept.22nd,1872
Emigrated to America April 17th,1879
Upon his arrival in America Herman Hove went to his
brother's Peter's farm west of Randall
Iowa.He worked on a farm east of Randall for several
years.
Died:June 6th,1941

Family of Lars and Cecelia Sjovoll after Lars passed away.Picture Front,left to right-Hannah,Mrs. Lars Sjovoll and Bertha.
Back,left to right-Edward(my grandfather),Inga,Julia and Ole.

Sissela Gurine Hansdtr.Meling
Born:Nov.21,1845
Born in Meling,Bremnes,Hordaland
Born to Hans and Johanne Meling
Lived close to the North Sea
growing up as a child.
Great-Grandmother Sissela Meling
was the only one of her
family to ever leave for America.
Died:Dec.29,1927
SOURCE OF INFORMATION
BB1,Bomlo Bygebok bd.1

The Kalvskind Farmhouse as it today in Norway.
Ole Erikson was Born:
Sept.27th 1819(twin)
Born:Gran,Norway Kirkbok
Died Nov.22,1907 in Richland County,
Wisconsin,USA
Buried with his wife Berit in Greenwood
Lutheran Church cementary in Vernon
County west of Cazenovia in Richland County.
Ole Erikson volunteered for military
service in 1848 in Norway.
Ole married his first wife Ingeborg
Nielsdatter Bentestuen Nov. 15,1853
in Norway. Their child Gudbjor was born
Jan.21, 1854.The christening occured Feb.
12,1854.I believe this child died before they left
for America April 18,1854.Ole and Ingeborg
had Edward Erikson in May 1856.Edward is buried
in Lowville township,near Poynette in
Columbia County,Wisconsin.
Ole Erikson listed his name at Perry,Wisconsin
in a church record as Ole Erickson Kalvskind.
The U.S.census 1870 shows Ole married to Berit
Brenden also of Perry probably in
1864 or 1865.Her father was Ole Anderson.

Johannes Pedersson Kvamme/Quamme
Born:July26th,1825
Records in Vik and Bergen show Johannes Hove as
being a tennat farmer,but some of Herman,s children
mention that he was a builder of stone arch bridges.
There are some bridges as you appraoch Vik,but most had been
rebuilt in recent years.
Hove is also the name attached to the

small vicinity or cluster of farms near the church,
and most of the Hove's in Vik seemed to live
in this one area.It,s seems the HOVE name
has been well estableished for a long time in VIK,as there was a
whole chapter on them in the VIK
chronoligical text
that the Roger Hove,s reviewed.
My relatives that made the trip to Vik i Sogn(Herman,s Hove's
birthplace) in 1972 was Earl and
Gladys Sevold of Minneapolis .
Later in 1974 ,visited by Roger and Laura Hove.
In 1973,Harry Hove and Earl Sevold of Minneapolis
located Herman,s birth and baptism on micofilm in
records of the Mormon Church Library
Both Earl Sevold Family and Roger Hove and Family ,
said that the town was the most
beautiful scene witnessed on their trip.
Vik is located on the Sognefjord,northeast of Bergen.
It is in a valley at sea level between two mountains and is approached
from the south over another mountain.The view from high is
magnificent.The Earl Sevold,s visited Norway in 1971 also,
but did not go to Vik at that time.